How do you simplify #52!#?

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KillerBunny
Jun 24, 2018

Depends on what you mean by "simplify"

Explanation:

What do you mean by "simplify"?

You can only apply the definition of factorial, I'd say: the factorial is a function that, given a number, returns the multiplication of that number and all the ones before, up to #1#. So, for example,

#5! = 5\times4\times3\times2#

(the last multiplication times #1# is irrelevant)

So, you have

#52! = 52\times51\times50\times...\times3\times2#

I wouldn't recommend to look for the exact value of this expression, since it is quite big, it has #67# digits! See here.

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